This is Kombi that my wife and I restored from a wreck, over a period of 12months. I bought it for $400....spent $6000 and sold it for $18000. Of course we didn't count the labour , smiles or sweat and tears !!
-- Edited by bluemoon2 on Sunday 26th of April 2015 08:03:19 PM
First vehicle was a kombi, old 36HP motor and drop down spur gears on rear axle, would go anywhere. Took the motor out using a garbage can to roll it out on.
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Cheers Peter and Sue
"If I agree with you we'll both be wrong"
No, I'm not busy, I did it right the first time.
Self-powered wheelie walker, soon a power chair (ex. Nomad)
Peter,
I also had one of those and on a trip north to Darwin, from Adelaide (when it was all corrugated)..I broke a rear torsion bar).
We pulled it out at Coober Pedy and just welded it. Then 200 klm up the track we found a abandoned kombi on its side...4 bolts and we had a new bar !!
Yes, so easy to work on, separate cylinder heads etc.
Between the generator and the cooling fan there was something like a spring washer to slow fan in cold weather, take it out and motor never over-heated. Old Redex Trial trick on VW cars. (Who will give up their age and say they remember the Redex Trails and galenite Jack?)
-- Edited by Ontos45 on Tuesday 28th of April 2015 10:34:24 AM
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Cheers Peter and Sue
"If I agree with you we'll both be wrong"
No, I'm not busy, I did it right the first time.
Self-powered wheelie walker, soon a power chair (ex. Nomad)
Yes, so easy to work on, separate cylinder heads etc.
Between the generator and the cooling fan there was something like a spring washer to slow fan in cold weather, take it out and motor never over-heated. Old Redex Trial trick on VW cars. (Who will give up their age and say they remember the Redex Trails and galenite Jack?)
-- Edited by Ontos45 on Tuesday 28th of April 2015 10:34:24 AM
My early one was a split window 1200cc. camper. First trip to Darwin from Melbourne, I arrived on 3 cylinders...burnt out valves etc...but would not stop.
I recond engine and lent it to a family who were stuck after Tracy (cyclone)...they gave me an address in Adelaide, to pick it up when I eventually went down 12 weeks later. When I arrived to pick it up....bodgie address....
No one had heard or seen them !! Traced it 3 years later at a wrecking yard in Perth. So much for being a good Samaritan .
smiles or sweat and tears !! 
